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ACROSS THE GOBI DESERT.
By Svon Hedin, translated by H. J. Cant. London:
George Routledge & Sons, Ltil.
THE PLEASANT 'NINETIES.
"FRd Rug" By Muriel Hins Bodley Head 75. Bd.
In these days when there is tendency, albeit not always mali. cious, to guy the Victorians, it ia refreshing to rend the Armly characterised tale of the Nineties A greater pori to civilization, na
which Miss Muriel. Hing has given o torm is now currently used; us in her latest novel. Is concerns than the social and economic views life, in a thinly disguised Midland prevailing in Russia, or thad the town called Lacingham, "and obscene pacifism that characterizes love story, ultimately tragic, of a a certain portion of Asia is the young girl tilting helplessly standardization and propagation of against the social inhibitions of culture at a very low level, as the time. The authoress avonds the practised in the United States, temptation of painting an onbeir where lectures and such abortions et picture and sympathetically na "Dr. Elliot's Five-Foot Shelf of dicates the couponsation. latent in Classics" abound. And of this a time when less frequent pleasures ignoble passion for information ra- gave keener joys and the Rubicon tor thai luowledge, of this mona-loomed larger in men's minds thin trous array of books for the man- it does now, in-the-abrest (he sweeps it op
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parently, to judge from the intel- DISCOVERIES IN SURREY, ligence his instructors allen Eim), ! "Acrcas the Gobi Desert", is a fair- ly typical example,
"The Archeology of Surrey?" By D. C. Whimster, Methron, 10s, Bri. Bitter Disappointment.
Surroy is not one of the richest English countios for the archaick Sven Hedin is proper man" logist, but Mr. Whimster has beca (todo un hombre, as Sr. Unamume able to produce an extraordinarily would say), who strives, loves interesting array of discoveries Sweden, exploration and Germany that have been made in Surrey, pad hates Great Britain with some of them Stone Age, some of whole heart: his subject is of
them Roman and others Saxon and enormous interest and his experia Viking. ences must have been well worth relating. So it is easy to under- stand the bitter diappointment of + very grent admirer of Hedin whan be comes across a book,, writ- ton in a style that may be vivid, but is wholly unpleasant with its confusion of tenses, that perishes
MRS. RICKARD'S "THRILLER.””
*Toung Mrs. Henniker." By _d r8. Victor Rickard. Jarrolda, Ta. Bd.
meanly between the possibilities of Had Trollopo written a "thril an account of the scientific results for the result might have been of the journey on the cne hand and rather like Mrs. Victor Rickard's of a relation of the high adventure Young Mrs. Henniker." This of overcoming difficulties in order time it is not a Mrs. Proudio whe to penetrate to fresh countries and
enlivens the gossips, but the besti- see strange peoples, on the other.
ful and temperamental young wife of a prominent visitor. The real heroine of Mrs. Victor Rickard'a remarkable story is a brisk, elderly spinster, and we share her suspi- cions, fears, and surmises, with up- flagging interest.
Irritating.
A QUIET LIFE.
"We Who Come After" By Mary Wiltshire, Sampson- Lov.. 78. Bick
Apart from three excellent maps, some dozen photographs, and a interesting, though muddled ap- pendix on Lop Nor, "Across the Gobi Desert" merely alternates the theme of "Sven Hedin," with the Gobi in the background" with the theme of "The Gobi, with Svon Hedin in. the foreground." Throughout the book one is irritat- At the end of the Great War, ed by inconsequent references to Miss Susan Studley's School for the temperature, where the scale Young Ladies, in Devizes, bad used is not mentioned, or informa hardly been touched by this cen- tion as to how high an isolated tury. And Margaret Brown, Miss balloon rose; there are one or two Studley's niece, felt, when she ar lapses of taste, such as the last rived there, that she was in for a paragraph on p. 284 which des-
very dull time indeed. But two cribes the visions Hodin had en love-affairs, one unfortunate and Christmas day; and there is one sentence of surpassing felicity to be the oxistence of
o, happy, are sufficient to enliven a normal young found on p. 18: Near the village lady. And she found her life quiel
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but over tedious. We say bullock-carts and two of the pretty same of this book. and useful vehicles commonly known as Peking carts, here used as a medus of conveyance."..
In short "Across the Gobi Da. Bert' is a book to borrow and not to buy.
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THE MAN WHO DEFEATED MALARIA.
Ronald Ross." By R. L. Megrus Allen und Unwin. 108. ed.
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ench of the adopted waifx as the schoolgirl had been forced Co potential murderer of their harri- marry a staid young artist dan of a keeper. And when Miss escape from the vulgarity of lif White lets us into the secret though in her stepfather's public house. we are not amazed, we do not feel If Miss Brill did not convey the that we have beon, cheated.
LIFE IN THE STONE AGE.
4Skara Brue: A Pictish Village Orkney," By F. Gordon Childe, Routledge. 31. ed.
prejudices of the young with no much understanding, a great deal of this novel would appear fcolish dental. As it is, the one seems and the final tragedy, merely acci natural and the other artistically inevitable,
REGENCY DAYS. '
This work on Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer and creator, is an es sential biography, if ever there was one. Really it ought to have been written by somebody years ago, fcr it was Sir Ronald who made the great mosquito discovery, and by his inspired researches has made life tolerable for Europeans in so
Skara Brae, the Pictish village many malaria-ridden
in Orkney, as the author writes, countries. Moreover, Sir Rouald is an im-unfolds a picture of sono age life can be portant mathematician, poet and the British Isles that novelist.
matched nowhere else." Hore Pro- "Flittermouse,” It seems an extraordinary mix-fessor Childs describes the remains Sarea. Hutchinson. Ta. Od.
and the various implements the up; and yet why should it be extra discovery of which throws light on Club, is riotous rakes, and u
The Regency with its Hell-Fire ordinary! Sir Ronald believes that great scientific powers the life and culture of an ancient courtly Court seems to have been to the people. His book is for the anthro made
writer for the creative and are related creative powers in literature andpologist rather than for the gene period" novel. Mr, Sarasin bas
ral reader. But the imagination caught the art, and that it is as natural for even of the general reader will be makes
daahing spirit. Be!
Palace the Regent'i great man of science to be an stimulated by the numerous plates Brighton as fantastic as the Alhaza- important post as it is for him to with which it closes. be anything also,
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hra, and allows his heroine adore both hor lover and her hus band. There is a quite illegitimate sensation in the shape of the dis- "Heaven for Twopence." By covery of a Mithraic cult, complete Minnis. Pallister. Independent, Ta with corpses, on the Sussex Downt bauur Purty, 14.
The whole is an exciting, highly Misa Pallister's title is well-coloured piece of melodrama,
Mr. Megroz devotes one half of his biography to Biz Ronald as a man of science and public bene.) factor, the other half to an ex amination and survey of him as a dreamer, post and novelist.
Like nearly all Mr. Megroz's bio- chosen. She is one of these rare graphical works the book is distin- writers who can successfully insist, guished by its detailed massiveness, with courage but without mawkish Mr. Megroz writes like a sort of optimism, on the delights to be
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life of King Louis XIV. The real brutal about it sometimes) and a THE BUBBLE OF ROMANCE. heroine, or rather villainess, of the
literary blackamith flings up
book-in Catherine Montroigoh,,, clouds of cold powdered iron ús "New Bed:" By Edith Brill, sorceress, paisoner and abortion: well as myriads of brilliant or es- Toulmia, 19. Or.
lat, who paid for bar crimes at the sential sparks.
The hare and heroine of this stake. Mr. Megroz has the truly acienti novel, Ana and Paul, toss about Wo read of the Church note Mans and stole little children from fe mind and is a poet himself as the bubble of romanos in a care most infamous, when some priests the atracts for their humansara well as a literary critic and bio-free manner. Unfortunately, the and Abbes in Paris said Black ficos. grapher of distinction.
bubblo burats For Ann," when Mass, as readily as the Christian A horrible and often disgusting
book Mr. Johnson is to be com- mended, however, for the mod tion be has, obaorved in his manner of writing.
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